Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1887-11-11

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Retrospective.
One Of The facts inseparaky connected with
the election of Tuesday is that the people o
Charles county will lose the services of the pre-
sent very able and ficient board Of rouuy
commissioners, v hn have so wisely managed
the puhiir fairs of the county for the t"o ye.rs
of th,ir term of ofice win the respect, the
esteem and the gralitu,e otrvery lover OF homes,
government within our limits Messrs. Thos
A. Carriro Wm. Mckinney Burrou hs. Wash
ing,on Hicks, Thos. T. Owen and George W.
Gray are gentlemen whose names should long
linger in the hearts Of our countyme and rho
deserve the plaudits Of the masses as few gentle
men have deserved them before. Elected at a
time when the county's credit was at a lew cob
from u long continued nisma nagement by in-
competent commissioners, and finding upon AS
saming office an empty treasury and a high rat
Of taxation which o,erburdened our already
struggling and poorly paid a ricu!tural masses,
they boldly took the helm of state and sought
by wise and economic measures to stem the tide
of extravagance and wastefu ness that had
government, with y hat result is alread known.
Boldly did they enter upon the herculesn task
which had been assi1 ned to them BY the people
in 1885. and nobly have they done their work;
and now that they ~re about to retire from the
active service Of the county in their present
capacity, it Can oe truly said Of them with q
depth of feeling and truthfulness. 'Well done
thou good and faithful servants Acting in
every matter that ca me before them with con-
servstism, with a calmness of Judgment and
with wisdom, they have disposed Of all public
matters in q manner that must and has rebound.
ed to the advantage OF the tax payers Of the
county and credit to themselves, and they have
left tehind q record that will bear the closest
scruteny and the sharpssr criticism, and will be
q safe guide for their successors to follow. 1t
is source Of regret say, with all due re-
spect to the gentlemen who have been selected
to succeed them, that the county will know
their services no longer but they have inaug-
urated such wise and economic policy in the
management Of our public affairs that the path
they folio we'd is broad and easily discernable to
all and we hope the gentlemen elected on Tues
day last will take up the reins of government
where they have dropped them and follow ia
the fame track. Our word for it that at the
end of their term they too will win and deserve
the same high encomums that must now he
heaped upon the heads of the retiring board.
There is one thing, however, to reconcile US
to the change, and this is that the gentlemen
who have been chosen to succeed them are all
honest men, good and true to the interest and
Wtf!.ig d odf comfy aud y DO will administer
their trust TO the advantage and advancement
Of the whole people. In Messrs. Geo. W. Gray,
Benjamin NJ. Edelen, J. Thomas HALEY, Will
fred Cough and James A. Murray have
worthy successors to IN able board. and gentle
men V ho will follow 10 the same line of Use
and economical policy laid out by their prede-
cessors. And more. they will have The counsel
and experience of one member Of the former
and earnest task they have before them. We
need have no fear, therefore, of the safety Of
our county's affairs for the next tive years.
Fash Of the entemen elected has demonstrated
in his private Affairs his ability 10 conduct them
properly and wisely, and they will bring the
same ability and carefulness to bear in the con-
duct Of the county's affairs.